Thursday, April 24, 2008

Host desecration is a form of sacrilege in Christianity, involving the mistreatment or malicious use of a consecrated Host, or communion wafer. Throughout history, a number of groups have been accused of desecrating hosts; because of the religious importance of the consecrated wafer, the accusation is one of metaphysical evil and hostility towards God. Accusations against Jews were a common pretext for massacres and expulsions throughout the Middle Ages in Europe. Similar accusations were made in witchcraft trials; the witch-hunter's guide Malleus Maleficarum mentions the desecration of hosts by witches a number of times. It is part of many descriptions of the Black Mass, both in ostensibly historical works and in fiction. BackgroundHistory · Timeline · ResourcesRacial · Religious · New ASAntisemitism around the worldArabs and antisemitismChristianity and antisemitismIslam and antisemitismNation of Islam and antisemitismUniversities and antisemitismAnti-globalization and antisemitismAllegationsDeicide · Blood libel · Ritual murderWell poisoning · Host desecrationJewish lobby · Jewish BolshevismUsury · Dreyfus affairZionist Occupation GovernmentHolocaust denialPublicationsOn the Jews and their LiesThe Protocols of the Elders of ZionThe International JewPersecutionsExpulsions · Ghetto · PogromsJudenhut · Judensau · Yellow badgeInquisition · SegregationHolocaust · Nazism · Neo-NazismOrganizations fighting ASAnti-Defamation LeagueCommunity Security TrustEUMC · Stephen Roth InstituteWiener Library · SPLC · SWC · UCSJCategoriesAntisemitism · Jewish history Accusations of host desecration levelled against Jews were a common pretext for massacres and expulsions throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, and in many German cities, according to Ocker's writings in the Harvard Theological Review. According to William Nichol in Christian Antisemitism, "over 100 instances of the charge have been recorded, in many cases leading to massacres." Examples

Who has stolen the loaves from the oven? The Jewish dogs, the Jewish dogs. This is a riddle, or refrain, sung by Chilean schoolchildren in the 1960s. It has been noted to be sung as late as 2006. See also